The Red Strings Club
Investigate a corporate scheme through cocktails, crafted implants and impersonated phone calls. The Red Strings Club makes influencing other people's emotions part of uncovering a cyberpunk conspiracy.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.4 / 10
About this game
A corporation promises a society without depression, anger or fear. The Red Strings Club follows an effort to uncover and oppose that project through personal encounters and information gathering. Behind the bar, you read a customer's mood and mix drinks that influence their emotions, using the conversation to extract information. Elsewhere, you shape genetic implants on a lathe to alter executives' attitudes, or impersonate project personnel on the telephone. Each activity approaches the conspiracy through a different form of manipulation. The story connects those actions to questions about happiness and the limits of controlling another person's mind.
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AI review
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A considered fit for players interested in persuasion and the ethics of emotional control.
Mixing drinks to obtain information could make conversation feel like an active investigation. The parallel use of implants and impersonation gives players who enjoy ethical ambiguity several ways to consider the same problem.
Strengths
- Emotional influence provides a concrete action behind the dialogue.
- Different forms of manipulation can reinforce the story's questions about happiness.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy interpreting motives and discussing what a desirable future should permit.
Play notes: Its premise treats the deliberate alteration of other people's emotions as a central ethical question.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Bartending, implant shaping and telephone impersonation offer different interaction patterns within the investigation. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Choosing how to influence a customer may appeal to players who enjoy extracting information through social judgment. | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The promise of engineered happiness gives the cyberpunk setting a personal ethical focus. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Touchscreen support offers an additional interaction option for players who prefer touching the display. | Reviewed | 6.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Deconstructeam
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genre
- Tags
- InvestigationPuzzle SolvingLinear LevelsSolo-friendly3D GraphicsMain Story 10–20 HoursThird PersonExplorationStory-drivenSlow Burn
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Side view
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2019
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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